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Databases

Database Name

Database Web Address

About the Database

Academic Search Premier

http://search.ebscohost.com

Provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study—including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. Fulltext and available through EBSCOHOST.

Africa-Wide: NIPAD

http://biblioline.nisc.com

Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies.  This is a product of NISC.

AidSearch

http://biblioline.nisc.com

Incorporates AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIAL, and AIDSDRUGS. This is a product of NISC.

ArchUP

 

http://search.sabinet.co.za/

Articles from 93 international and South African journals were indexed over the years to enable users to access information on architects, buildings, building materials and methods, design theory, urban design, and much more. This database is updated on Sabinet

Biological Abstracts (BA)

http://web5.silverplatter.com

BA is the leading abstracting and indexing reference publication for life sciences information.

Book Data

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Offers full bibliographic information on forthcoming, new and in-print titles, and also includes short descriptions of titles. Users will be able to determine title availability for acquisition purposes. Available through Sabinet.

Business Searching Interface

http://search.ebscohost.com

BSI provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Business Source Premier

http://search.ebscohost.com

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.  Fulltext and available through EBSCOHOST.

Cement and Concrete

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Contains more than 40 000 technical references on all aspects of cement and concrete. These references reflect the physical collection of books, conference proceedings, pamphlets, journals and electronic media. Available through Sabinet.

Current & Completed Research

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Contains South African research projects and covers the social sciences, humanities, economic and management sciences. It includes masters and doctoral theses of South African universities, and technikons as well as information on research projects from non-governmental organisations, private sector and government departments.  Available through Sabinet.

Daily Law Reports

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Court case judgements (Juta Law).  Available through Sabinet Legal products.

Emerald

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ft

Emerald currently publishes more than 160 journal titles in the fields of management, information science and engineering.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

http://.search.eb.com/

Britannica online has access to multiple resources from one location, delivering search results with a range of content including encyclopedia articles, multimedia, related Web sites, magazines, and much more.

ERIC  (Educational Resource Information Center)

http://search.ebscohost.com

ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.   Available through EBSCOHOST.

Fiction

http://search.sabinet.co.za

The Fiction database includes different formats of fiction records e.g. printed, Braille and sound recordings, from various library collections in Southern Africa.   Available through Sabinet.

FirstSearch

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/

FirstSearch provides seamless electronic access to dozens of World databases and more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles. Available through OCLC.

Forestry

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Forestry covers a unique pamphlet collection from forestry, wood science and nature conservation research institutes.  Publications of all major South African Forestry and Forestry related institutes and companies; a complete set of reports of the South African Department of Forestry and proceedings of major international and national forestry conferences.  Available through Sabinet.

GreenFile

http://search.ebscohost.com

Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.  Available through EBSCOHOST.

Health Source – Consumer edition

http://search.ebscohost.com

This resource provides access to full text, consumer health magazines.  Also includes searchable full text for health-related pamphlets and 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society.  Available through EBSCOHOST.

Health Source – Nursing / Academic Edition

http://search.ebscohost.com

Provides scholarly full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Available through EBSCOHOST.

InterScience

 

Wiley InterScience is a leading international resource for quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavours.

ISAP    (Index to South African Periodicals)

http://search.sabinet.co.za

ISAP covers indexed articles from South African periodicals. Available through Sabinet.

IBSS  (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com

IBSS contains bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

ISI – Web of Knowledge

http://portal.isiknowledge.com

ISI Web of Knowledge delivers easy access to high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.   It contains Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. 

Kovsidex

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Includes references for both local and foreign books and journal articles, some of which have been obtained through organisations such as Unesco, IIEP, IBE, OECD, IRDC and the Council of Europe.  Also includes Research Institute for Education Planning (Riep) which covers a wide range of reference works on the theory and practice of education dating back to 1975-1997.  Available through Sabinet.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

http://search.ebscohost.com

This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.   Available through EBSCOHOST.

Marketline

http://www.marketlineinfo.com

MarketLine has  industry profiles and country information.

MasterFile Premier

http://search.ebscohost.com

MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.  Available through EBSCOHOST.

MEDLINE

http://search.ebscohost.com

Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.   Available through EBSCOHOST.

Mintek

http://search.sabinet.co.za

A bibliographic database containing the results of Mintek's original research in the fields of metals and industrial minerals. Topics include economic geology, mineralogy, minerals engineering, extraction technology, hydrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, biotechnology, process chemistry, measurement and control, environmental control and physical metallurgy.  Available through Sabinet.

Navtech (SA Technikon Research)

http://search.sabinet.co.za

The Technikon Research Database (Navtech) contains information on current and completed research projects undertaken at South African technikons.    Available through Sabinet.

NDLTD (Theses and Dissertations)

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Data harvested from OCLC's XTCat database.  Available through Sabinet.

NETLAW

http://search.sabinet.co.za

The SA Legislation database that provides access to amended acts with rules, regulations and forms. NetLaw offers immediate access to the most significant acts and their regulations, made available as soon as they have been amended.   Available through Sabinet Legal products.

Newspaper Source

http://search.ebscohost.com

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for national (U.S.) & international newspapers.  Available through EBSCOHOST.

NEXUS

http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/index.html

Nexus is the Research and Knowledge Networking Databases in South Africa.  It contains Current and Completed Research Projects in South African academic Institutions.  Nexus is a product of NRF.

Oxford Dictionary

http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html

Oxford Reference Online contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Oxford Journals

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ OJ is a major international publisher of academic and research journals. Its collection covers Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and includes some of the most authoritative.

 

Parliamentary Bills

http://search.sabinet.co.za

The Bills provide access to the South African Bills as introduced to the National Assembly.   Available through Sabinet Legal products.

PlanUp

http://search.sabinet.co.za/

The database includes diverse, research reports, articles, frameworks, sketches and photographs of archives of the department of architecture at the University of Pretoria. This database is updated on Sabinet.

Provincial Legislation

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Offers full-text online legal and legislative information. South African provincial legislation (Juta Law)  Available through Sabinet Legal products.

Regional Business News

http://search.ebscohost.com

Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.  Available through EBSCOHOST.

SACat

http://search.sabinet.co.za

SACat reflects the collection of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic information referring to books, periodicals, audiovisual items and other information material.  Available through Sabinet.

SA ePublications

http://search.sabinet.co.za

This is the first service that brings together, soon after publication, the tables of contents, abstracted records, and full-text documents of many journals published in South Africa in a single user-friendly service.  Available through Sabinet.

SAGEOLIT

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Contains information on geosciences’ publications, selected from journal articles, publications of symposia, and published and unpublished reports and maps held by the Information Centre of the Council for Geosciences (CGS).  Available through Sabinet.

SA Government Gazette

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Provides access to the full text South African Government Gazette and Weekly Government Gazette Index. The database includes acts, bills, draft bills, green papers, white papers, and regulations published in the Government Gazette.  Available through Sabinet Legal products.

SA Media  (SA Newspapers)

http://search.sabinet.co.za

SA Media covers more than 120 South African newspapers and periodicals.  Available through Sabinet.

SANB (South African National Bibliography)

http://search.sabinet.co.za

SANB is an accumulation of the bibliographic records of all items published in South Africa.   Available through Sabinet.

SA Statutes

http://search.sabinet.co.za

Acts applicable in South Africa (Juta Law).   Available through Sabinet Legal products.

ScienceDirect

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information.

Subsidie

http://search.sabinet.co.za

The Database of Approved Research Periodicals (NASOP 02-014).  It lists all periodicals approved as research platforms.  Available through Sabinet.

Teacher Reference Center

http://search.ebscohost.com

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.   Available through EBSCOHOST.

UCTD (Union Catalogue for Thesis and Dissertations)

http://search.sabinet.co.za

UCTD contains bibliographic records of theses and dissertations at master and doctorate level submitted to universities in South Africa. Honorary doctorates are also included.  Available through Sabinet.

Water Resources Worldwide

http://biblioline.nisc.com

Water Resources Worldwide combines’ databases on all facets of international and African water research.  This is a product of NISC.

World Catalogue

http://worldcat.org/

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.

 

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